Helping hands

Helping hands

Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times

Blair Witherington, a research scientist with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, helps in the rescue effort. "In a perfect world, they'd gather up the material and let us search it before they burned it," he said.

Blair Witherington, a research scientist with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, helps in the rescue effort. "In a perfect world, they'd gather up the material and let us search it before they burned it," he said. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Blair Witherington, a research scientist with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, helps in the rescue effort. "In a perfect world, they'd gather up the material and let us search it before they burned it," he said.